Nothing like a spectacular orange-hued sunrise over the Coast Mountain Range in northern California, looking across from my cabin:

And here are several of my sketches and a painting I think have some interesting, though more subtle, hues of orange. The first at left is a quick, colored sketch of Verocchio’s sculpture of David, which has nice orange ochre hues; the sketch to the right is of a model at a recent life drawing session, and has some interesting orange pastel shading; and the final, bottom painting has white gesso, purple, and a vivid reddish orange design.

Here’s your blog artist at a recent July 4 parade, attempting to express himself in watercolor painting: see first photo. It was difficult to find the proper focus when there was such distraction from our coast highway artists collective models, posing at the front of the truck bed: see second photo.